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2019-06-10

Jun11
by Aaron on 2019-06-11 at 12:10 am
Issue: Ps238 Volume 11

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  1. Opus the Poet
    2019-06-11, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    So it’s not teleportation. But it is moving from one place to another without physically passing though any of the intervening points. Cool

    • Messenger
      2019-06-11, 8:46 am | # | Reply

      Teleporters- not just Charles Brigman- exist in the PS238-verse. When the Department of Metahuman Affair came to deal with him, they had a plan and counter-measures for him.

      It stands to reason that the Earth Defense League tower’s defenses cover teleportation as well.

      So therefore for Ron’s newfound power to be able to work in escaping the tower, it would have to NOT be teleportation or NOT work in a similar manner. It’s something completely new and unseen in the metahuman world and thus cannot be counter-acted.

      What is it, though?

      • TxGator
        2019-06-11, 10:10 am | # | Reply

        At the moment, I’m thinking he can interact with the fourth dimension. So walls have has much chance of stopping him as a line on a piece of paper has of stopping us.

      • Ken
        2019-06-11, 10:46 am | # | Reply

        Seems to me like some kind of finite improbability drive. You can tell it’s not an infinite improbability drive because there are no whales or petunias yet. Or maybe that’s because he hasn’t tried to leave Earth yet.

    • Kitsune
      2019-06-12, 6:09 am | # | Reply

      Kind of like a tesseract in A Wrinkle in Time… you sort of fold space so that your location and destination are very close together.

    • Radecliffe
      2019-06-14, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

      More like his own personal hyperspace drive it seems like to me.

    • 7eggert
      2019-06-17, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      He’s following a path of narrative entanglement.

  2. Hfar
    2019-06-11, 1:38 am | # | Reply

    @Opus the Poet Could be a personalized form of warp travel: literally bending space to get where you’re going.

    • Autoskip
      2019-06-11, 5:46 am | # | Reply

      I think he goes into Escher-space and the brain just can’t cope with seeing things like the waterfall from anything but that one angle.

    • David Nuttall
      2019-06-11, 7:36 am | # | Reply

      I am thinking this is an interpretation of quantum tunnelling. One moment you are here; the next moment you are there. Your positional waveform extended outside of a barrier that would normally stop you, so you could be there, but a higher probability of being here. Collapse the waveform and voila, you are outside (sometimes)!

  3. Faust
    2019-06-11, 10:10 am | # | Reply

    He still doesn’t know where he is going once outside. The flea needs to steer. 🙂

    • Prairie Son
      2019-06-11, 11:19 am | # | Reply

      Flea just has to say “the place we beat Charles”.

      • CountryMage
        2019-06-11, 4:39 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t know if that particular piece of directing would work here, as “the place we beat Charles” is also the place where Moonshadow ruined Clarinet’s home life, got his parents to split up….

        • Foradain
          2019-06-12, 10:37 am | # | Reply

          As long as Ron can identify the place by Flea’s “the place we beat Charles”, it’s as good as any other method of identifying the place, and less likely than some to bring up unpleasant memories.

    • Jenora Feuer
      2019-06-15, 11:00 am | # | Reply

      Depends. If what he’s doing IS the same sort of warp, maybe he’ll be able to feel it as ‘somebody’s doing the same thing I’m doing’. And, just going by plot hooks, this certainly means he should be able to step off the ride in the middle…

  4. Marie
    2019-06-11, 9:48 pm | # | Reply

    I am getting overpowered by the need to see the wormhole/stargate/shadowwalk in action! I don’t think this is a jump like teleportation or star wars or the teleportation countermeasures. Perhaps more like Trek, where they are still in part contact with normal communication and observation. Hope we get the explanation.

  5. Mike
    2019-06-14, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    It just struck me that Cecil’s coat apparently did a very successful diet in only a few panels.

    • MrBookBoy
      2019-06-14, 11:14 am | # | Reply

      Huh, that’s true. Did the adults just stop paying attention to the giant cloth/eldrich thing behind them or did they just ignore it when it crawled back onto Cecil?

      • Simreeve
        2019-06-15, 6:18 am | # | Reply

        Maybe it had absorbed & assimilated enough stuff to split into two normal-sized coats, so that one could rejoin Cecil while the other kept the attention of any interested adults?

        • Faust
          2019-06-21, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

          Maybe it’s just larger on the inside now.

    • Colin
      2020-04-13, 5:29 pm | # | Reply

      Or there’s a pile of chaos-sick that’s corroding the floor.

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