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Grrl Power #1323 - Plans within plans

🕑 Added 2025-01-20 11:00:12 +0000 UTC

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Reigys

Oof, and hers probably won't be well defended and something will inevitably go wrong lol

tsukiouji

Dungeon SG-1

Timothy Mayfield

Valeria is also the name of Reed and Sue Richard's super-intelligent daughter.

Jared Kolbly

For a brief moment I was thinking Sciona was planning to hijack the construction to have the dungeon built to suit her needs and was thinking of how hard it would be to not get caught, but then I realized she is probably trying to steal the design so she could make her own modified one in a hidden location.

IvyReed

The whole point of a false identity is to keep it mundane. It's most likely just one of the following: Ana, Claudia, Maria, or Rosa.

Richard du Maine

Sofia Clara Isabel Ophelia Natetiva y Aranca, or Sciona ;)

IHazNoFace

i’d go with the pretentious irony alias. Something that would invoke an ancient goddess of light and goodness. Like me naming my necromancer “Sunny” or “child of life” in Icelandic. I feel like Sciona would have that kind of humor.

eddi_TBH

Sciona is there representing the bureaucracy of DC. She is legal. Until she gets caught. After all, that's DC tradition.

Torsten K

I've never actually seen all of the film, but enough to see why it's nicknamed City of a Thousand Disappointments.

gaijin 99

Conan: To crush the enemy, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women! Sciona: It's funny because it's true

gaijin 99

I feel you on that. I'd like to say it's because I got old, but naah I've always had an awful memory.

Jacob Bissey

3 and 4 look vaguely like alchemical symbols, but when I looked them up there were no matches, but maybe a system of symbols that takes inspiration from alchemy? 3 also appears to be stylistically similar to Linear A, although is not from that, but perhaps a conlang that took inspiration? I spent some time going through various alphabets and scripts on Omniglot, but I couldn't find a match for either of them. I will say that 3 seems extremely familiar to me but I can't quite place exactly where I've seen it, it's probably going to be something I'm very familiar with and I'll feel stupid when somebody points it out

Person

If 1 is the Half-Life logo, I feel like I should recognize 2 and 3, but don't. And yes, the last one is from Elder Scrolls. If anything, I'm a little bummed that the triangle at position zero isn't more Stargate-y. They're not the English alphabet swap characters from Elder Scrolls, Zelda, final fantasy, or metroid. They don't look like Tolkein elvish.

Thomas Dorner

Ah, it looked so precisely I was sure you had a bigger version. :-)

Dave Barrack

I think I have a higher res version of the layout, but I penciled in all the runes on the small version on this page, so they're like 5px high each.

Mark Magagna

I thought He-Man, but apparently not.

Dave Barrack

I really wish I could remember the cartoon that introduced me to the name. At this point in my life though, I wouldn't be surprised if I did figure out which cartoon it was only to learn that her name was actually Veneria, or... Gonnorhia. I really shouldn't trust my memory.

Dave Barrack

She's just marking down where the plates will go, not designing the sigil. She was part of that effort earlier, along with Gault and Dabbler and several others.

Dave Barrack

Oof, that movie could have been better. That must have been rough to watch.

Leo Once3333

I can't think of any villanous Valeria's tbh? Plenty of heroic ones though.

Torsten K

Valeria is a villains name? I cannot see that since Space Agent Valerian was a part of my comics reading growing up, and a big reason for my liking of science fiction in general.

Terence Bryant-White

Sciona inwardly: https://youtu.be/oqwzuiSy9y0?si=HCaKNfjdFuOjEQsT

Town Crier

So... the lonely nerd putting together the possibly world-destroying dungeon has no oversight?

Alysandir

In addition to Conan's Valeria, I'd point out that the love interest in "Dragonslayer" was named Valerian/Valeria (if you've seen the movie you understand the distinction).

Killianti

There's a lambda in the runes. Not just any lambda, it's the Half Life logo. Aperture Science is a company in the Half Life universe.

gaijin 99

Valeria was the name of the heroine from the first Conan movie who literally manifested after death to save Conan from being killed due to the power of love. I'm just not seeing villain there personally.

gaijin 99

@Wyrmhand, the final rune on the right is the Oblivion sigil from the Elder Scrolls games, and the one on the far left is the lambda from the Half Life series. I feel like I should recognize the others, but I don't.

Czarzhan

If she went with Valeria, she could claim her parents named her after Sandahl Bergman's character in Conan the Barbarian. I could actually see troll-body Sciona catching it in one of her rare moments of down time. She passes a room where some henchmen are playing it and catches the scene at the beginning where Conan's mom loses her head, thinks it's a comedy and sits down to watch. (When it's over, she decides she was right about it being a comedy.)