Tales of the Starbuck Avenger!!! (67)

[jeffreycwells]

Saint Raphael's cathedral may in fact have lain before us, but if we were counting on being able to confirm this fact with our eyes, we were sorely disappointed. As soon as we hit East Main, the dark of the night glommed around us in a sort of sticky black fog. I slowed the scooter to a crawl.

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[packbat]

Other relevant numbers:

• Probability that Garuda revives in time to provide assistance: 45%.
  
• Probability that Tackle grows a spine in time to provide assistance: 30%.
  
• Probability that interplanetary bastard is outnumbered: 100%

Boy am I looking forward to more Starbuck Avenger!

[feech]

Eh, I put Tackle at %100 chance of not showing up unless he's got some benefit to get out of it we don't know about yet. :|

I guess we'll find out if Garuda even has super healing powers?

[jeffreycwells]

Thanks! Not much to go, now...

[feech]

"This is g-- good," remarked Mebby. "This could block our j-- jeff from exercising he' super powers. Essentially you said he needs to see the holy place to teleport away."

_Excellent_ use of an apostrophe.

You have an eiter-either typo, and in one of Absolvatron's early speeches the parentheses broke up the bold (I generally like the effect, by the way).

I giggled at Trish saying "kitty paralysis spot".

And, of course, I like Mebby.

Supafly ingress.

I'm not sure how well that whole banding thing really works for the X-Men.

Thanks for posting more SA!!!!!!

[jeffreycwells]

I finally fixed the HTML tagging issue. I am ashamed to say that I still can't see the typo you're talking about.

Trish doesn't know a lot about super heroes. If she were to meet the X-Men she would probably revise her opinions. :)

[bobulus]

Hmm. Things are clearly going a bit *too* well.

Possible hitches that I can see: (I suspect the author of being much more clever than me, so I don't feel bad speculating)

- Garuda, being unconscious, did not create the fog. The alien, having stolen something from Garuda (I think that happened?), did, for some reason we are not yet seeing. Trish spends too much time wondering where the alien got coffee.
- Absolvatron finds out the sinner is an extraterrestrial, fight breaks down during discussion on whether aliens have souls and thus need Saving.
- None of Our Heroes' powers can do anything against the alien, and, in true Saturday Morning Cartoon fashion, Trish has to find out that The Power Was Inside Her All Along and she has to defeat him with her normal-person barrista abilities....somehow.

Of course, I could just be a cynical old dude and everything will turn out fine. ;)

[jeffreycwells]

Of course things aren't going to turn out fine! What has really turned out 100% fine in this entire story so far?

[tremor3258]

Well, the good news, Avenger's running on forward momentum, and that seems to work pretty well for her. Downside, I figure Gardua was already out when Absolvatron got to him and the alien has Garuda's powers.

This may come down to handing said alien the wrong coffee. :D

[jeffreycwells]

These are good thoughts! Stay tuned.