No, that IS a good thing! If anyone’s going to be wily enough to know what to take, as well as how to get away with shoplifting a Superpowers Shoppe, plus one with a staff suddenly gone hostile, you’re very much going to want Zodon on your team.
Eh, if zodon had nefarious intentions here he wouldn’t have given up the advantage of surprise by jumping into the conversation. There’s another shoe to drop, a true villain to reveal him/herself.
While you may still be right, it’s also possible that Zodon’s “genius” image/ego (however rightly he may think of himself thus) simply would not let him go without issuing (what he sees as) a proper explanation. Evil Genius supervillains generally aren’t content with simply being smart – they have to be seen being smart, too.
Given the way she acts, and the fact that she neither turned to anyone for help nor had it offered to her, I’m thinking the younger version is the REAL identity (secret or not).
I find it funny that the store people’s incessant escalation means that they’re distracted when Zodon’s actually going to steal shit. That’s karma, right there.
I’m thinking that if I looked into the etymology, I’d probably find that “störung” has similar roots to “stirring.”
*goes off to research*
“stir (v.)
Old English styrian “to stir, move; rouse, agitate, incite, urge” (transitive and intransitive), from Proto-Germanic *sturjan (source also of Middle Dutch stoeren, Dutch storen “to disturb,” Old High German storan “to scatter, destroy,” German stören “to disturb”), from PIE *(s)twer- (1) “to turn, whirl” (see storm (n.)). Related: Stirred; stirring.”
-Etymonline.com
I’m curious as to who else thinks the “Code 300″/Intruder Alert is actually ONLY about Zordon being in the store, with everyone else being permitted entry.
Also, in confirmation, I can guarantee that Cecil has one of his coattails (his right hand coattail) off panel while being carried through the “higher spatial dimension”, and it was in another toilet when they arrived. The closest to “it’s impossible for Zordon to be here” panels are from just before they started travelling, and even then Cecil’s close enough to off panel every shot to allow Zordon to be in a specific spot just off-panel, or moving closer to the group from just off panel.
It would explain a lot, especially if P&G only got what we heard and are just assuming that all the kids that snuck in are Code 300 threats. While Z is still a child, he is protected well enough that Unusual Levels of Force might be required just to restrain him…
Been thinking about it. At first glance, it would seem so. I was going to agree myself. But after some pondering, the idea that the intruder alert is just for Zodon and excludes Cecil, Ron and the Flea becomes problematic.
P&G’s super-tech store doesn’t just screen people from its premises at the door; even approaching it from the sidewalk will bounce you away if you’re not invited. Remember that the Flea and Cecil were warped away from the place early in the story, after Sarah first confronted Ron and Tyler. He lost track of her and ran into the Flea who showed him some weird bouncing effect was around the store.
Thus we know that Cecil and the Flea weren’t “invited” then; why would they be now? They’re only there to help Tyler, not get new powers.
Second, Ron’s newly manifested powers got them in *despite* the store’s ability to screen out the uninvited. Not going in through the front door where people are supposed to pass and bypassing security measures is not part of the welcome visitor category.
Third, checking the sequence of events, the alarm went off immediately after Ron, Cecil, and the Flea’s arrival. At that point Zodon was still trailing the trio. Alarms are triggered after you get in, not prior to it.
Fourth, it’s easy to blame Zodon. He’s a jerk for a child and almost always up to no good, including here. But he only followed the path into the store; he wasn’t the original trespassers who managed to bypass its security. I’d like to blame Zodon too because he deserves a lot of comeuppance, but don’t forget that heroes and do-gooders tend yo do a lot of trespass too in their adventures too. Cecil, the Flea and Ron just did.
But he didn’t, or else Cecil, Ron, and the Flea would have noticed. If Zodon held on to Cecil’s Chaos Coat’s tails, he still trailed far enough behind to not have been seen and thus arrive after them.
One thought is they did not go to violence when Praetorian Greyhound just popped into the place. They just contacted their boss and dropped him off outside. And I hope I can edit this because I recall they were surprised by the alarm at all not simply ‘again’. But now I have to flip back and check that.
Just checked it. 2017-07-24. Charles crashed into some of their wares and presumably got knocked out. Power: “And will he be all right? He landed on some techno-magic gear that’ll take me a week to calm down.” No need to resort to violence if the guy’s already unconscious.
But what gets me now is what you said, Nealithi. When Ron, Cecil, and the Flea do arrive in 2019-12-30, it really feels like it’s the first time it’s happened for P&G. P&G’s surprised dialogue is ambiguous, though. Assuming that intruder alerts are indeed rare given how hard it is for unwanted guests to get in, then an intruder alert happening again might warrant it.
I never try to explain these days how my record in death matches against pickup trucks is 2-0-1. The truth sounds like I’m on drugs because it is such a rare condition.
I was born with a rare bone condition that makes my bones and connective tissue very dense and strong. I have fallen out of trees and windows and aside from soft tissue injuries I walked away every time.
Anywho, back in the mid-1970s I was hit crossing the street twice in the same intersection hard enough that the vehicles were totalled out but I walked away, the second time with a blanket to cover where my pants were shredded from the pavement. Then back in 2001 a pickup driver took offense at my riding my bicycle home from my second shift job, and executed a u-turn so as to execute me with his pickup truck and hit me from behind at approximately 60 MPH (100 km/hr) I went between 12 and 16 feet vertically and about 100 feet horizontally and smashed the passenger side of the roof back until it was almost flat. The impact also broke my tib/fib, exploded my lower leg muscles out of the front of my leg, broke my femur and hip, and then I had a secondary impact when my face hit the street at the end of my trajectory. This of course, killed me, for a little while. Counter intuitively, being dead saved my life because I didn’t have my heart pumping my blood out of the huge hole in my leg onto the ground. But when they scraped me off the street my heart started beating again, I regained consciousness and told the people doing the scraping that I had broken the upper end of my femur (the only injury I could feel). I passed out again so I can’t say what their reactions were, but when I regained consciousness again by that time I had some Gooood Drugs in my system and asked if anyone got the number of the truck, and then when asked if I had seen the truck I said no but it was too late for the bus so it had to have been a truck to do this much damage. That’s the one I count as a draw.
I am a little confused about how your heart starting beating again in the “draw” incident though. It doesn’t sound like they revived you at the scene and I don’t think EMTs usually bring that kind of equipment anyway. Do you know how/why it happened?
I’m looking forward to Ron establishing his own identity and costume, free of his dad’s shadow which was a HUGE issue when we met him. It’s been a long time coming, and he had to deal with ego and loss issues first. I’m especially glad he stopped blaming others for the weird stuff around him. Good, good.
Zodon unsupervised in THIS store.
This is not a good thing.
Yeah, this is a nice soft elephant crap hurtling towards a high-speed fan.
Actually, Elephant dung is mostly undigested grass fiber. People even make paper out of it!
Bear scat is a much messier option.
No, that IS a good thing! If anyone’s going to be wily enough to know what to take, as well as how to get away with shoplifting a Superpowers Shoppe, plus one with a staff suddenly gone hostile, you’re very much going to want Zodon on your team.
Or just him on HIS OWN side, as usual.
Eh, if zodon had nefarious intentions here he wouldn’t have given up the advantage of surprise by jumping into the conversation. There’s another shoe to drop, a true villain to reveal him/herself.
While you may still be right, it’s also possible that Zodon’s “genius” image/ego (however rightly he may think of himself thus) simply would not let him go without issuing (what he sees as) a proper explanation. Evil Genius supervillains generally aren’t content with simply being smart – they have to be seen being smart, too.
What is the over/under that dynamode turns back in to her young version tomorrow morning?
I suppose that matters if she minds. As treating a younger self as a form of secret identity.
Given the way she acts, and the fact that she neither turned to anyone for help nor had it offered to her, I’m thinking the younger version is the REAL identity (secret or not).
I find it funny that the store people’s incessant escalation means that they’re distracted when Zodon’s actually going to steal shit. That’s karma, right there.
This has me thinking of a certain teleporting shoplifter.
Anyone have a good guess what the gothic speech is? The second word is “pinned”, but I can’t make out the first.
Effizienzstörung festgestellt – efficiency loss detected
I’d like to add that Effizienzstörung is not a german word. Effizienzverlust which literally means efficiency loss is. =P
Yes it is
It literally translates to efficiency disturbance
Source: a German
“I sense a disturbance in the Efficiency, as if…”
I’m thinking that if I looked into the etymology, I’d probably find that “störung” has similar roots to “stirring.”
*goes off to research*
“stir (v.)
Old English styrian “to stir, move; rouse, agitate, incite, urge” (transitive and intransitive), from Proto-Germanic *sturjan (source also of Middle Dutch stoeren, Dutch storen “to disturb,” Old High German storan “to scatter, destroy,” German stören “to disturb”), from PIE *(s)twer- (1) “to turn, whirl” (see storm (n.)). Related: Stirred; stirring.”
-Etymonline.com
I’d put ithe meaning down as power disturbance confirmed. (Efficiency to Effect to Power)
I got a google on it roughly that says ‘effj that fault fixed’.
I can’t figure out the characters that look like a 3
It’s a z.
I’m curious as to who else thinks the “Code 300″/Intruder Alert is actually ONLY about Zordon being in the store, with everyone else being permitted entry.
Also, in confirmation, I can guarantee that Cecil has one of his coattails (his right hand coattail) off panel while being carried through the “higher spatial dimension”, and it was in another toilet when they arrived. The closest to “it’s impossible for Zordon to be here” panels are from just before they started travelling, and even then Cecil’s close enough to off panel every shot to allow Zordon to be in a specific spot just off-panel, or moving closer to the group from just off panel.
It would explain a lot, especially if P&G only got what we heard and are just assuming that all the kids that snuck in are Code 300 threats. While Z is still a child, he is protected well enough that Unusual Levels of Force might be required just to restrain him…
Been thinking about it. At first glance, it would seem so. I was going to agree myself. But after some pondering, the idea that the intruder alert is just for Zodon and excludes Cecil, Ron and the Flea becomes problematic.
P&G’s super-tech store doesn’t just screen people from its premises at the door; even approaching it from the sidewalk will bounce you away if you’re not invited. Remember that the Flea and Cecil were warped away from the place early in the story, after Sarah first confronted Ron and Tyler. He lost track of her and ran into the Flea who showed him some weird bouncing effect was around the store.
Thus we know that Cecil and the Flea weren’t “invited” then; why would they be now? They’re only there to help Tyler, not get new powers.
Second, Ron’s newly manifested powers got them in *despite* the store’s ability to screen out the uninvited. Not going in through the front door where people are supposed to pass and bypassing security measures is not part of the welcome visitor category.
Third, checking the sequence of events, the alarm went off immediately after Ron, Cecil, and the Flea’s arrival. At that point Zodon was still trailing the trio. Alarms are triggered after you get in, not prior to it.
Fourth, it’s easy to blame Zodon. He’s a jerk for a child and almost always up to no good, including here. But he only followed the path into the store; he wasn’t the original trespassers who managed to bypass its security. I’d like to blame Zodon too because he deserves a lot of comeuppance, but don’t forget that heroes and do-gooders tend yo do a lot of trespass too in their adventures too. Cecil, the Flea and Ron just did.
Actually, if Zodon was holding on to Cecil’s coat’s tail, he would’ve arrived at the same time they did. Agree with the rest, though.
But he didn’t, or else Cecil, Ron, and the Flea would have noticed. If Zodon held on to Cecil’s Chaos Coat’s tails, he still trailed far enough behind to not have been seen and thus arrive after them.
One thought is they did not go to violence when Praetorian Greyhound just popped into the place. They just contacted their boss and dropped him off outside. And I hope I can edit this because I recall they were surprised by the alarm at all not simply ‘again’. But now I have to flip back and check that.
Just checked it. 2017-07-24. Charles crashed into some of their wares and presumably got knocked out. Power: “And will he be all right? He landed on some techno-magic gear that’ll take me a week to calm down.” No need to resort to violence if the guy’s already unconscious.
But what gets me now is what you said, Nealithi. When Ron, Cecil, and the Flea do arrive in 2019-12-30, it really feels like it’s the first time it’s happened for P&G. P&G’s surprised dialogue is ambiguous, though. Assuming that intruder alerts are indeed rare given how hard it is for unwanted guests to get in, then an intruder alert happening again might warrant it.
I never try to explain these days how my record in death matches against pickup trucks is 2-0-1. The truth sounds like I’m on drugs because it is such a rare condition.
I’ve heard the 2, but not the 1.
Please, please explain, this sounds amazing.
I was born with a rare bone condition that makes my bones and connective tissue very dense and strong. I have fallen out of trees and windows and aside from soft tissue injuries I walked away every time.
Anywho, back in the mid-1970s I was hit crossing the street twice in the same intersection hard enough that the vehicles were totalled out but I walked away, the second time with a blanket to cover where my pants were shredded from the pavement. Then back in 2001 a pickup driver took offense at my riding my bicycle home from my second shift job, and executed a u-turn so as to execute me with his pickup truck and hit me from behind at approximately 60 MPH (100 km/hr) I went between 12 and 16 feet vertically and about 100 feet horizontally and smashed the passenger side of the roof back until it was almost flat. The impact also broke my tib/fib, exploded my lower leg muscles out of the front of my leg, broke my femur and hip, and then I had a secondary impact when my face hit the street at the end of my trajectory. This of course, killed me, for a little while. Counter intuitively, being dead saved my life because I didn’t have my heart pumping my blood out of the huge hole in my leg onto the ground. But when they scraped me off the street my heart started beating again, I regained consciousness and told the people doing the scraping that I had broken the upper end of my femur (the only injury I could feel). I passed out again so I can’t say what their reactions were, but when I regained consciousness again by that time I had some Gooood Drugs in my system and asked if anyone got the number of the truck, and then when asked if I had seen the truck I said no but it was too late for the bus so it had to have been a truck to do this much damage. That’s the one I count as a draw.
Even more amazing than expected!
I am a little confused about how your heart starting beating again in the “draw” incident though. It doesn’t sound like they revived you at the scene and I don’t think EMTs usually bring that kind of equipment anyway. Do you know how/why it happened?
So Zodon was the unknown fourth child that escaped the barriers when Ron warped everyone out.
And is that a fishing rod in his claw?
Looks a bit like some sort of tech to hold the orb, but that’s probably a moot point by now.
I’m looking forward to Ron establishing his own identity and costume, free of his dad’s shadow which was a HUGE issue when we met him. It’s been a long time coming, and he had to deal with ego and loss issues first. I’m especially glad he stopped blaming others for the weird stuff around him. Good, good.
So if she doesn’t know her limits, and her superpower is super self-awareness………
(Note, I am not questioning the quote, just pointing out the sheer scope of her abilities now.)