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Grrl Power #1063 - Olé olé, olé olé...
🕑 Added 2022-07-04 10:01:02 +0000 UTCThank you for the support! You guys are awesome!
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If you're a henchman participating in an assault on a base of superheroes, you gotta figure there are some pretty good benefits and/or pay. Also there's probably an extensive briefing beforehand, depending on how disposable the henchmen are, and how serious the organization is about success. I mean, it depends on what their goals are, really. But there's only so much preparation you can do, and the briefing probably isn't going to cover all possible encounters, especially stuff like "an IT guy's girlfriend who it so happens can hack reality." Body armor and IR goggles aren't really going to help you with that anyway. Your best bet is to incapacitate as many people as possible to limit responses.
Honestly if I was going to assault a super base, my opening move would probably be knockout gas in the HVAC. Knock 'em down before they know they're being swung on. Maybe someone from the red team here suggested that, but learned that Archon has detectors in the system that would trigger alarms and lock it down. Basically, I'd want to win as many fights as possible before even entering the building. It's a question of their resources and prep time vs your own, and how expandable your resources are. Not sure what the average henchman mindset is, really, but they can't all be thinking they're going to come out of an assault like this unscathed. Well, maybe they've got some invincibility cocktail coursing through their veins. That is to say, a cocktail that makes them think they're invincible. The Grrl-verse is still hard at work on super soldier serums.
Comments
Crissa Kentavr
Alarms going off don't tell you why the alarm went off. And evacuating is probably protocol
James
Considering that she's still shown no regret for needlessly frightening a group of bank-goers in the early-story AND disregarded her safety with the her reaction to the alarm, she'll get only very limited sympathy from me if this puts her in the hospital. Though good on Leon and Krona, reacting so rapidly to this attack.
Adamas
was thinking she may be a super that didn't know it because she was never exposed to a situation that made it come up.
My first thougt exactly. My second thought was that they should have had enough drills that when the alarm is going of, none supers does not just run out into the corridor...
eddi_TBH
And they have a healer on their medical staff.
Even the most well-trained people can screw up in the heat of the moment. All it takes is ignoring protocol just once...
Lopernicus
I somehow don’t think that is the case sadly. I think either this might be the end of Ariana, or if we’re lucky she’ll only be severely burned but alive.
Stephen Gilberg
True, they can't all have super hearing, ESP, or even an in with the police.
Opus the Poet
How about supers who never manage to be where the action is? Like even working a convenience store that the robber just comes in and buys a pack of smokes and then leaves to go rob another store?
Stephen Gilberg
I do like the idea of supers who don't feel like being action heroes or villains.
BJ
Uh, are we about to learn that Ariana has secretly been a super the whole time? Just chooses to be a noncombatant because she just enjoys legal war.
