2013/09/25 [DMFA #1431] Well, if food is optional...

[killpurakat]

... bathrooms probably are too. 

[Tapewolf]

I had wondered if that kind of soul-bomb was possible - interesting if it can be tuned not to affect the undead, though.  Otherwise Mehlata willl be de-souled as well.

I wonder if that kind of thing is considered cheating by the Demon creed?  It's not exactly a demonstration of strength - the only defences are to flee from it or blind luck.  It's kind of like the Furrae equivalent of WMD.

[Prroul]

She'd better hope it isn't flashy... this might well tip her hand if it gets caught. After all, just how many people were permitted within that room after Mehlata supposedly swept it before the meeting started? And she was also on guard while Kria was asleep.

It's like a locked room whodunit. With the chief of security as the witness within the room who was conscious at all times.

[joshofspam]

Oh we're learning so many interesting things about the undead's culture here.

Building codes on certain things are different an think about it.

So many other things could be too. Hospitals, beauty salons, food courts, shopping stores, housing. A whole lot of things for the living taken a different spin for how the undead live.

Oh, I'm giddy with excitement to learn more and watch the necessities of the living to possibly stop more of Mehlata plans.

Edit: Now that I give it some more thought, that sounds remarkably similar to how the dragon had the town set up to collect souls of the dying. Is that just chance or a hint of something more sinister?

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

I had wondered if that kind of soul-bomb was possible - interesting if it can be tuned not to affect the undead, though.  Otherwise Mehlata willl be de-souled as well.

I have to wonder why you think it'd be tuned, and why you think Mehlata would be within a hundred feet of the room? Last we heard, she was going to "check the beach for security"...

... with a huge smirk on her face. ;-]

[Tapewolf]

I have to wonder why you think it'd be tuned, and why you think Mehlata would be within a hundred feet of the room? Last we heard, she was going to "check the beach for security"...

Because she said "All living creatures", not "everyone in the room".  Whether undead count as 'living creatures' is debatable, but my assumption was that whatever spell is being used separates the soul from the living tissue, and that undead have their souls bound to their bodies in a different, artificially-created manner (remember what it did to Devin, after all).

Also, I thought she was outside the meeting room - she's clearly not by the beach now, and she would need to be fairly close if she wants to have some idea of whether it worked or not...

[Eboreg]

Murphy's Law is such an #%&.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

I have to wonder why you think it'd be tuned, and why you think Mehlata would be within a hundred feet of the room? Last we heard, she was going to "check the beach for security"...

Because she said "All living creatures", not "everyone in the room".  Whether undead count as 'living creatures' is debatable, but my assumption was that whatever spell is being used separates the soul from the living tissue, and that undead have their souls bound to their bodies in a different, artificially-created manner (remember what it did to Devin, after all).

Also, I thought she was outside the meeting room - she's clearly not by the beach now, and she would need to be fairly close if she wants to have some idea of whether it worked or not...

As for your first point - fair point, you may be right.

The second - if she was outside the meeting room, she'd know that the meeting had been adjourned for a potty break, I'd have thought... Elsewhere in the building, maybe, though...

[Ross]

When you got to go, you got to go! 

As a student of history, I can't help but think of all those failed assassination attempts on Hitler during the war.  Try it in the air?  Oops, plane flew too high and ignition froze.  Try it at a dinner?  Curse you seating arraingment!  Try it in a bunker? ASGHKGFGVVYH TAAAABBBBLLLLEEEE LLEEEEGGGGGGGGG!


But with timing like hers, Kria's ability to avoid danger in the most comical fashion would make Laurel and Hardy weep at its beauty.

[Wdot]

If the choice is luck or skill, take luck every time. I'm so  glad  kria's dice are lucky loaded. 

[Ignuus66]

Hmm, I wonder if it leaves any mark/residue on any non-biological thing, If yes, I'd say it's just like a (tiny) neutron bomb

[joshofspam]

I have to wonder why you think it'd be tuned, and why you think Mehlata would be within a hundred feet of the room? Last we heard, she was going to "check the beach for security"...

Because she said "All living creatures", not "everyone in the room".  Whether undead count as 'living creatures' is debatable, but my assumption was that whatever spell is being used separates the soul from the living tissue, and that undead have their souls bound to their bodies in a different, artificially-created manner (remember what it did to Devin, after all).

Also, I thought she was outside the meeting room - she's clearly not by the beach now, and she would need to be fairly close if she wants to have some idea of whether it worked or not...

As for your first point - fair point, you may be right.

The second - if she was outside the meeting room, she'd know that the meeting had been adjourned for a potty break, I'd have thought... Elsewhere in the building, maybe, though...

Well considering what Amber has said about the technicalities of living for the Undead, I'd have to say Tape has a good point on the first one too. Besides, killing everyone in the room might be or a good percentage of the building might be considered flashy.

As for the second one, maybe an art gallery perhaps. After all being the head of security while taking an interest in Kria "safety" she'd probably use this as an alibi being out and securing all places where she would think Kria might enjoy and she can always pocket the device after she goes to investigate the crime scene.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Well considering what Amber has said about the technicalities of living for the Undead, I'd have to say Tape has a good point on the first one too. Besides, killing everyone in the room might be or a good percentage of the building might be considered flashy.

... As opposed to blowing up the coach she was arriving in?

[joshofspam]

Well considering what Amber has said about the technicalities of living for the Undead, I'd have to say Tape has a good point on the first one too. Besides, killing everyone in the room might be or a good percentage of the building might be considered flashy.

... As opposed to blowing up the coach she was arriving in?

Well, a high body count can leave just as big as impression as big explosion. I mean if it kills both undead and living, it would be like her excepting a higher body count over a massive fireball spectacular. But then again, I suppose it all matters to what she considers flashy.

So........Maybe?.....She was obviously a Mythos in life, so that might range her moral compass and veiw point's a bit from are own two moral compasses and views.

[ishidan]

The second - if she was outside the meeting room, she'd know that the meeting had been adjourned for a potty break, I'd have thought... Elsewhere in the building, maybe, though...

She's far outside the meeting room. 
As in "more than 100 feet" far.
So far, fact,  THAT she has no idea what's going on in there at the moment.
This is why she's gloating by staring at a timepiece, instead of being in the thick of the about-to-happen action.

[Tuyu]

I was going to say that the backdrop in the current comic looks very similar to the backdrop in comic 1412, but on second thought, I think that's just the way Amber is drawing generic "nice" building interiors. (I noticed that the meeting area of SAIA also looks the same.)

Also...

I can't believe that a thirty story building only has a single bathroom on the ground floor!

And with no window to escape through...