Evasion
Nora successfully evaded Kaya. A considerable feat!
Kaya: Darth Vader Tie Fighter Noises!
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To be far, Nora was warned, so she was presumably rolling with advantage
Can’t pounce a duck hybrid.
The comments on Nora’s trigger discipline last page got me curious, so I’ve been brushing up on laws for prop weapons. The orange tip is the federal requirement, so she’s compliant there, but she’s also in New York state, which has much stricter laws, namely that prop weapons cannot be blue, black, or grey, and depending on where you are it might require a brightly colored stripe down the side of the weapon, or even require that it be transparent. NYC from what I can tell will charge you for anything that doesn’t look like a nerf gun.
Considering she’s young and likely doesn’t have a record she’d probably just get a fine (up to around $1000 depending on local law) if she was in this reality. I’m going to assume HC or the Twin Dragons version of New York is more lax on this since there’s plenty of places in the US that just the orange tip would be perfectly legal for a prop.
Interesting, I didn’t know that.
Funny you mention the orange tip. Nora was originally a character played by a friend in a long spanning roleplay campaign that ended over a year ago. When the DM of that campaign saw the orange tip he said “Nora is the type to paint an orange tip on a real gun” and that made me laugh so hard xD
Funny enough painting the tip of a real gun isn’t a crime. You can legally paint any part of your weapon, but trying to make a genuine firearm look like a prop is malicious asf and if you’re caught committing a crime and you have one it can be used as evidence for criminal intent. At the federal level anyway.
well, just like with any roleplaying campaign, warcrimes were common so it’s not out of place for her to do that xD
A while back I was looking up the laws on novelty IDs as I had noticed that while they were once a popular items at SF&F conventions (Starfleet Academy student IDs, Knight Industries employee IDs, Area 51 UFO parking passes, etc) but around 2006-ish they suddenly disappeared from the convention dealers rooms. When I mentioned that at one convention someone said they’d heard a rumor that multiple dealers at one convention got cited and fined under fake ID laws and that was why they’d disappeared. And I’m thinking of this in part because after doing a bit of searching I found the relevant laws for Arizona, a few other states, and New York City, and from what I recall the NYC rules were among the most restrictive. So I can absolutely believe they would have very stringent rules on ‘toy’ guns. (I wonder how they handle it when doing TV/movie filming, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they simply required production companies to treat realistic looking prop guns as if they were actual live firearms)
Oh! And it occurs to me that she’s lucky the science fiction author Myke Cole is either not attending or not currently present at the convention. He’s a former military trainer and from what I’ve heard *will* go into instructor voice if observing someone not following proper safety practices on anything with a trigger. And, not sure if he still has the ribbons, but the last time I was at a convention he was at he had a badge ribbon you could get if you could give him an adequate set of firearm safety rules from memory. From the times I’ve seen him in person and online he does seem a rather nice guy, so I don’t expect he would go full bore instructor on a kid, but it could still be startling.
Well she’s dressed up as a rocket. She needs to act the part, right? 😉
I gotta say, they make a cute couple.
Nice duck, Nora! And yes, I’d say that’s always a good question when Kaya’s moving that fast.
It’s nice to see how much, and how quickly, Nora trusts Benji, and his “suggestions”. 🙂
Life or death situations (in roleplay games :p ) do that to you :p
Just you wait until the version of the Kaya missile comes out: homing capability! XD
Met and bonded over gaming, nice. Well if they last as a couple, adulthood doesn’t srnd them far apart then they should at least never br bored together.
A natural 20 on evasion? Nora’s probably used up her good luck for a while, so she should be careful. Her good luck isn’t as large in amount as her cousin, Amy the Lucky Bunny, which is why Robin/Big Kai calls her the Unlucky Bunny.
Nora manages to do the impossible and dodge a full speed Kaya Kuddle™. She’s the first to date who has avoided baptism by missile mode Kaya, quite the accomplishment. So Nora and Benji met at the Lucky Bunny, figures that the two love birds would be love nerds. Careful with what you say around your girlfriend, Benji, she’s a bun with a gun.
How much damage did Kaya’s impact cause? At least enough for Cleo to pay for damages… Kaya needs to quit pouncing on people at full speed, her motion blur is a sign of impending death or injury.
Let me guess: Nora Fielders?
I’ve just met Nora, and I already got quite a lot of respect for her.
She listens to others and is quick on the uptake and in her reactions. Managing to duck an incoming Kaya missile is really something! 😀
A friendly missile missed,
and crashed in all the boards.
Gaining foes rather than fans
(Of course, Kaya’s got hoards)
Introductions all around
With them the centre of attention.
Names thrown at her at speed;
A mistress of skilled retention?
So Nora joins the group;
adding glamour to the scene.
The Dragon pack is growing…
The biggest it’s ever been.
Diolch yn fawr iawn.
Oi, Nora, nerdity is not an insult, and it is something to be ashamed of! And pistol-whip whoever told you otherwise.
That was supposed to be “and it is NOT something to be ashamed of”. I’m facepalming at myself.
My interpretation was that she was offended by the “almost”, as she considers herself a bigger nerd than Benji. Particularly since, as a female, she actually needs to defend herself from gatekeepers, and Benji, as a male, would get a free pass.
Ah, that would make sense, yes. There are, unfortunately, a lot of fandoms where being a woman gets you treated like $#!+, so it makes sense that someone who takes pride in her nerdity would be eager to defend it.
I love how there was all those comments complementing Nora’s trigger discipline last page only for her to just straight point the gun at Rex while looking at Kai.
something about bunnies and wolves :p
BUUUUUUUUUUUUT then she puts the gun right in Benji’s face… threateningly…
Yes, but her finger’s still off the trigger, which IS the appropriate way to handle a firearm when you want to hold someone at gunpoint and are not yet ready to shoot them.
Wouldn’t have helped (or only moderately helped) at the hunter safety event I attended way back while I was in high school. Part of it involved traveling along a trail/obstacle course while carrying a rifle and while being watched by a number of referees who would make you redo a section until you could get through it without violating any of the safety rules. And having the gun pointing at someone, even with your hands well away from the trigger, would get you a, “Stop! Check where you’re pointing, and redo that,” on the reasoning that even if your finger wasn’t near the trigger that in the woods there are plenty of branches or other things small enough to fit within the trigger guard and that if you were careless enough to point the gun at someone you were being careless enough not to stop things from getting at the trigger. The event also had one of my favorite safety event questions, after a demonstration involving two blocks of ice one of which was shot with a .30-06 and the other smashed several times with a sledge hammer. “So, which would you rather have happen to you? A quarterback hitting you twelve times with a ten pound sledge hammer or get shot once with the .30-06?” A question only one person on site truly got correct. Yes, the block of ice stuck repeatedly with the sledge hammer was still in larger pieces than the one that was shot a single time, but the truly correct answer was the person who said, “Can I choose neither?”
@LilFluff: I think you’re comparing apples to oranges here. The situation you’re describing is “gun-holder accidentally aiming a gun at someone while travelling through forest terrain”. The situation I am describing in the comic is “gun-holder deliberately holding someone at gunpoint as threat/intimidation”. There is no logical reason to compare the person who is actively threatening to shoot someone to the person trying to get from plint A to point B WITHOUT shooting someone.
Glad Nora succeeded in her DEX save!
Repeat of my question from last week; does anyone know why the comments text suddenly got tiny on mobile? Ever since about 2 weeks ago, I am having a hard time reading the comments because the text is so small. My best guess is that I’m suddenly on a desktop version of the site, without any way to change it.
It seems to correlate with the time that my host updated to the newest wordpress build. I’ll look into it, but I’m not too at home with the newest wordpress things, so I can’t promise I can fix it. Let me know if it happens to change back to normal though.
If I see a change, I will.
Thanks to comments on the last page, I’ve been reassured that Nora definitely isn’t a type of weevil! Thank you good commentsfolk…So I’d like to say that the brown rabbit and the green leafy-haired dog are indeed a very cute couple.
…But I also remembered something, that the invisible twin sister of Jin (is her name Katsumi? please forgive me for forgetting) once said that Benji seems to routinely deceive people. I wonder if it could be that he hides things from people… like having a girlfriend??
Katsumi is indeed her name, and her claim was that Benji has an “aura of deception” about him, not that she’d actually caught him deceiving people. But that does definitely track with his smug response to everyone’s surprise that he has a girlfriend a couple chapters ago, which very much makes it look like he was actively hiding his relationship status to get a reaction out of his friends.
Coastal got it essentially right. DTIBA didn’t quite remember the words.
“Why do I keep feeling this air of trickery around him? Like he routinely deceives people.”
My remark was more that she didn’t SEE him deceiving anyone, but point taken. That’ll teach me to paraphrase from memory instead of actually backtracking.
How do you do link text like that on this site? I know different sites use different methods. (brackets; parentheses, et cetera) How does this one work?
It’s plain old HTML syntax. It should be easy to find an introduction to HTML on the Web.
For the first time, somebody managed to clear the QTE
Given how quickly she reacted, maybe she is a Jedi.