Seven ninjas, all one at a time.
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https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1130612947
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TODD: Pohl, if you need to go home, I think we can handle "the situation" here for now.
POHL: Thank you Todd, but I need to make sure I stress that it be kept as tightly under wraps as you can for now.
POHL (VO): Amanda could be the first of a whole new wave... or she could be experiencing proximity effects. We need to determine Ifs and also Whys and Hows with some conclusivity.
POHL: And I don't mean to be excessively dramatic, but I'd really rather avoid a scenario where she needs to be isolated for any safety or security reasons.
TODD: Pohl, you make it sound like I'd be the guy in a Fight the Shadow Government movie.
POHL: Well, if you DO know how to murder seven ninjas at once, no reason not to brush up on the skill.
POHL: Thank you Todd, but I need to make sure I stress that it be kept as tightly under wraps as you can for now.
POHL (VO): Amanda could be the first of a whole new wave... or she could be experiencing proximity effects. We need to determine Ifs and also Whys and Hows with some conclusivity.
POHL: And I don't mean to be excessively dramatic, but I'd really rather avoid a scenario where she needs to be isolated for any safety or security reasons.
TODD: Pohl, you make it sound like I'd be the guy in a Fight the Shadow Government movie.
POHL: Well, if you DO know how to murder seven ninjas at once, no reason not to brush up on the skill.
Make sure you also take lessons in "Take a bullet but get and and continue sprinting and doing acrobatic stunts anyway 101"
Worried Villager to another Worried Villager: You ever kill a ninja?
Mickey Mouse (bursts in, bragging about the flies he just swatted): I killed seven at one blow!
I know that quote… it’s originally from a fairy tale from the brothers Grimm; The Brave Little Tailor
Yeah. They made a Mickey Mouse cartoon out of it.
https://youtu.be/ne1r1MHOXHo
Hmmmmm. Well… Selkie’s hairclip was powerful enough to drain a fully trained and powerful echo… but regardless of Selkie’s potential at whatever level it has been unmasked, um… did it use up all of it? Or could it have gone to orphans who like to hum harmonies and listen intently for it?
I don’t like the implications that if this is perfected Pohl and more worryingly Scar will then know a long term plan to “steal power from” an echo. But it would certainly be useful if the recipient wasn’t necessarily born with the resonance. Many hands make light work.
It’s not like it took away her power and was, like… storing that power within itself. It was *suppressing* her power. It’s like if you forced someone to wear extremely heavy weights on their legs their whole life, or bound their legs with tape – you’re not taking away their ability to walk, you’re just making it so they temporarily can’t use their legs. Remove the handicap, and the person will have to (re)learn how to walk, just like how Selkie is learning to tap into her latent power.
Perhaps Selkie is channelling something external to herself– that’s what the term “Echo” suggests to me. In that case, perhaps an all-pervading semi-sentient power has been trying to make contact with Selkie all her young life, and switched its attention to someone close to her in an attempt to bridge the gap? And now it refuses to let go?
Or am I being paranoid?
Was that a tap on my window?
Re; Secret Message. Sorry but I took Surviving Getting Hit By a Truck Going 60 MPH 405 and that precludes taking the getting shot class.
I was going to take that, but then a slot opened up in the Survive Being Thrown Through a Plate Glass Window and Falling Seven Stories class, and that counted as credit in two of my requirements.
Awww man, the only classes I had were, “Survive Sliding Down 20ft Cliff as Baby,” “Get Saved From Riptide By Wild Stingray,” “Apartment Mysteriously Smoke Free for Two Hours Until I Exit It During Building Fire,” “Chainlink Enclosure Prevents Mountain Lion From Eating Me,” and “Dishonorably Discharged Marine Moved Out of Apartment To Prevent Murdering Me In My Sleep.” That’s gotta count for some credits, right?
Only if you remembered to get your advisor to sign them off as independent projects.
Law of Inverse Ninja Strength. 7 is easy. 1 is impossible.
Just in case someone needs to know about that
https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-250-its-only-overconfidence-if-he-loses/
You’re thinking of “Conservation of Ninjutsu”.
if this is a side effect of non-echos humans being exposed to the dampening field or the dampened energy having to go “somewhere” then everyone who was at the orphanage for the entire length of stay of selkie staying there would need to be monitored. and whats worse what happens when those in the capital find out humans are able to do echo stuff. this will range from “bad, Interesting but bad” to “oh fuck they have harrison ford, tommy lee jones, and chris meloni after us” type situation.
This really sucks for Amanda, people are going to make a big stink about this on multiple levels and not everyone is going to be pleasant about it.
As the previous comics have shown us, this can have serious social and religious implications for Selkie’s people and we all know how aggressive folks can get about their ideals.
Todd can only manage 5 ninjas and that was back in his youth. He can probably barely manage three now.
I love Pohl.
Side note: during LGBT awareness month, all ninjas of those orientations have a -7 on their stealth rolls.