[0836] The Divine Comedy, Page 33 (Manga Studio Adventures)
└ posted on Monday, 7 November 2016, by Novil
- Sandra: Liz, my leg’s stuck!
- Larisa: Don’t move! I’m coming!
- Inventory: Samsung phone, Slice of pizza, Carbon rod (inanimate), Gorbachev keyring, Paint brush (with paint)
- Abilites: Pyromania, Artistry, Precociousness
- Caption: If Larisa destroys the killer digger with a rocket, she’ll save Sandra’s life. However, the explosion will also cause the collapse of the already unstable floor. The digger will fall down and crush the five boy scouts who have been lured there by the nefarious angels. Now it’s up to you to help Larisa to make the best of this trolley problem! Make a suggestion what she should do in the comment section! (With a sketch if you like.) We will use the best suggestion for the next strip!
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Jump over the crevice, climb into the Digger, disable the A.I., and then drive the Digger to move out of the crumbling floor and remove the debrees from Sandra, problem solved! 🙂
@ Faneko:
“drive off of the crumbling floor and remove the rubble from Sandra” I mean, I’m such a Grammar Nazi to myself x.x;
Pull the ring and chain from of the Gorbachev keyring, which is obviously a device used to summon Super Gorbachev, and throw the Carbon Rod over as device activates so he comes into the struggle armed and ready to fight off the machine and do anything else needed in the time she was allotted for that favor.
After which, he takes two disabled machines (one in each hand) for mother Russia and flies off into the light.
Holy hell, this is actually fairly easy.
1: Larisa is the pyro, so assume she has advanced knowledge of the flammability of various items/chemicals.
2: Combine logically chosen item(s) to overheat the rocket in order to create a massive heat trail and fire close enough to the command panel to melt down critical circuits. (Being an artist doesn’t always entail pictures.)
3: Time limit. Assume this is only going to stall things. Shout to the boys to run and make a leap of faith. A: Larisa is fit and healthy, a long jump may well be in her natural abilities. B: Adrenalin will improve most of her physical skills and reaction time during this time frame. C: She already has others voting for her. It’s amazing just what a difference knowing someone has confidence in you can make in tight chances.
4: Assuming Larisa is fast enough, this time limit thing plays slightly to her advantage as the crumbling floor will finish off the metal monster as the floor gives way.
Pyromancy IS an art. So is physics. Knowing her creative mind and relatively high IQ, this train of thought should pass through Liz’s head almost instantly.
Only the explosion would be bad, hence the use of heat to win.
Yell down at the Boy Scouts that if they help her friend out of the rubble, she’ll take her top off for them [they’re teenage boys and it fits the succubus in training]. when they run up, blow the floor under the machine.
Then call Cloud and his family. While Cloud and his mother keep the rest of the angels occupied, his sister can build a time dilation field and trap them.
Larissa would (see http://imgur.com/a/LqWj6) –
1. Shout “DYNAMITE! RUN!” and throw the inert carbon rod into the flames
2. Run along the wall to get behind the digger
3. Fire the bazooka rocket into the digger bucket so the concussion and debris will destroy the digger cabin. Sandra will protected by hardened steel digging blade. Most blast forces will be parallel to the ground, so it will not immediately collapse.
Larissa will be in more danger than Sandra, but, for her right handed shot, she would choose a spot where the bulk of the machine will serve as a shield.
@ Novil:
throw the pizza to the left the crane will go for the easier meal. While distracted use the hidden transmitter in the Gorbachev Key chain. While simultaneously hurling the carbon rod into its treads. Immobilized it will likely go for the kill. Using the Samsung phone you can cause a localized explosion freeing Sandra from the rubble. She will only be able to make it far enough away to keep her safe long enough for the Soviet Armed Forces to show up. They will be able to take it from there.
instead of destroying it why not just shoot the backend of the diggers wheel to immobolize it?
Paint Larisa’s face to look like Sandra’s.
Either that or just shoot the digger, because the boyscouts are fake, or already going to die.
@ Crashguy2:
I like this! Go Larisa!
1. Stuff carbon rod in rear end of bazooka.
2. Fix phone over sight, with camera pointing backwards.
3. Turn around and fire, using the backblast to propel the rod through the engine of the digger, neutralizing it without a huge floordamaging explosion, letting the backblast set fire to it.
4. Sing Kumba-Ya and grill the pizza on the fire, summoning the boyscouts out of the hole.
5. Convince boyscouts that keychain is a merit badge for saving people from landslides and cave-ins, with bazooka if need be.
6. Immortalize the scene by making a painting of it.
@ DrCryllus:
Just what I was about to say.
Rocket Jump is the only way
Larisa should use the rocket launcher to propel herself across the chasm and into the cab of the digger to beat the crap out of the angel and take control of the machine.
1) Fire rocket at remaining connection on Target sign so that it falls and can be used as a bridge.
2) Insert pizza into engine works – this gums up everything and causes the engine to independently explode.
3) Paint over sensor array to disable tracking.
4) Crawl underneath immobilized digger and use the carbon rod as a lever to turn the cranks and release the pressure on the hydraulic fluid tanks, slowly lowering the bucket to where it can do no harm.
5) Use body of rocket launcher as a lever to lift the rocks trapping Sandra.
6) Go to nearby stores and/or janitorial closet to procure a ladder. Lower it to the trapped boy scouts.
7) Remove the keys or whatever from the digger’s ignition for future use.
8) Once the scouts are out, use a rocket to blow up the useless hulk that remains of the digger, sending it plummeting downwards.
9) Have Sandra record herself screaming for help on the phone, then call the Devil and throw the phone down into the pit with the digger. Given the angel’s demonstrated ability to hack HellTech we can assume that they have probably tapped the Devil’s phone lines.
10) Hide, wait for the angels to trace the call and show up, then use the final rocket to blow them to bits.
To those suggesting a Rocket Jump… this was my gut instinct as well, but how can we be sure that the floor is more stable on HER side than on Sandra’s? She might well just end up collapsing the floor anyway.
“Mr Gorbachev tear down this digger!”
Save Sandra. The scouts can save themselves. Maybe Larisa can yell to them to run first, if she’s feeling nice.
-OR- wave the pizza at them. It’ll get their attention, and they’ll find their own way out in a half second. Because pizza.
Its not so difficult: With all these objects in her pockets, she can fire the rocket to the most top of the crane, so the crane will start toppling, than toss as much objects to the crane to make it top over, making the arm useless. Children saved; Sandra saved!
As predicted by the devil phone, the boy scouts are another one of the angels’ tricks.
Destroy the digger (and by extension, the evil angels), rocket jump over to Sandra, free her with the carbon rod, mark her and sandra’s arms with the paintbrush to prepare for an attempt by the angels to fool sandra and/or larissa with a fake sandra and/or larissa.
Blow off the very tippy top of the machine, delaying it, thus giving the boy scouts time to get out of the way while Larisa reloads. Then blow it sky high!
Simple.
This is Larissa. She’d most likely use the paintbrush on the open flame to make a torch that’ll light the digger on fire. The Samsung, if it’s the one I’m thinking of, could blow a hole in the cockpit, where the AI should be. Computers in general do not like heat, and may cause a firewall pun.
She could probably throw the carbon rod to Sandra so she can get herself unstuck a little faster, too.
Naturally, the Gorbachev keychain would inspire the strength and determination of the boys scouts to band together and escape their prediciment.
You have 3 beautiful rockets left to smite nefarious angels.
The pizza is a garnish.
Gruhl wrote:
Lol, seriously I got a great laugh out of that one. 🙂
Kor233 wrote:
Exactly! (What’s inside of a Gorbachev key chain? Another slightly smaller Gorbachev keychain perhaps? 😉 )
I still think Ruth and Sid could have a cameo chewing some Killer Digger wires!
#bringbackthecritters
Throw pizza like a Batarang, hitting several angels in the face.
PizzaSmack™
Ask the boy scouts if any of them if any of them are prepared to rename themselves Sandra. One should agree out of desperation: kill him, fulfilling the decision to kill Sandra on that day in that place, and point out to the angels that if they continue the plan they’ll be killing her without authorization (the authority already having been used up).
Eat ice cream.
Throw the carbon rod into an exposed part of the digger’s mechanics to buy enough time to pull up Girl Scouts Gone Wild on the Samsung phone. Then quickly attach the Gorbchev keyring and throw it and the pizza down to the boy scouts. Finally, swing the paintbrush toward the fire to splash little bits of paint through so the oil will catch fire and land near the boy scouts, scaring them away from danger and toward their new lives of lust, gluttony, and communism!
@ DreyfussFrost:
I forgot to mention that after a short time the rampant malware on Girl Scouts Gone Wild will cause a memory leak on the Samsung phone which will overheat it and cause the battery to catch fire, destroying the evidence of Larisa’s corrupting actions. The malware will then infect the PCs the boys try to revisit the site on later, converting them into Mac fanboys (the worst kind of sinners)! The only possible downside is that the scouts may develop a fear of fire, but they may also credit it with saving their lives!
@ Bob C:
Hmm. This DOES have the advantage of potentially getting Sandra to that underground point that was supposed to be safe for her… Of course, the downside is that you’re shooting a rocket near her.
Wow, a lot of these are more complex than my idea.
Aim and fire at the bullseye on the Target sign – the resulting explosion will shift where the digger is headed, saving Sandra, and the explosion itself will be mostly blocked from harming the boy-scouts due to the proximity of the sign’s lower half and digger itself.
deadman wrote:
You’ll have to take out both the shovel AND the threads.
Or else it could either dig through Sandra or just run her over.
I have decided about the action. It will be a combination of various suggestions and ideas of my own.
Detonate the Samsung at her feet to mine-jump across the gap, stick the carbon rod in the tracks to send the digger veering in the wrong direction, then fire at any other incoming diggers while using the rocket exhaust to blast Sandra free.
@ Agronopolos I second this:
Rocket jumps yo!
Real, going with a samsung bomb to the robo-brain.
Step 1: Throw the carbon rod at Sandra so she can brace herself and maybe she’ll have enough leverage to pry up the rubble.
Step 2: Throw the pizza down into the hole directly underneath Sandra. In true boy scout spirit, the boys will all scramble to grab the pizza, and by extension get out of the way.
Step 3: Fire the first rocket at the ground directly behind the killer digger, creating a large enough hole for the killer digger to fall backwards away from the scouts and Sandra.
Step 4: Once the killer digger is in the pit, take it out with another rocket to prevent it from crawling over the rubble to.
Step 5: Paint Gorbachev’s birthmark in vivid red, and take a selfie using the Samsung phone.
Step 6: Send the selfie to the angels. Hopefully they’ll be confused enough to be distracted while you:
Step 7: Use the third rocket to perform a rocket jump over to Sandra.
Step 8: If Sandra hasn’t already, use the carbon rod to pry up the rubble.
Optional Step 8B: If you have time, tag that Target sign with the remaining paint: “angelz are lame”
Step 9: Run for it!
Use phone to call Luna. Activate plot device. Win.
@ TheMightyZero:
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2015/03/19/0668-deus-ex-machina/
1. Put the slice of pizza on the floor
2. Yell down to the boy scouts that there is free pizza and a hot girl up on the main floor. The boy scouts will then climb the rubble and even empty air to get access to free food and chicks. They’re like 14, after all, and there’s no greater combination of things in the universe than free food and hot chicks to a 14 year old boy.
3. With the boy scouts actively defying physics to save themselves, hook the Samsung phone to the rocket and fire it into the digger using the rocket launcher.
4. The added explosive force of the malfunctioning smartphone should reduce it and the floor to a powder of minerals.
5. 30 years later, when emphysema settles in from breathing the mess in, sue the mall owners and the town for damages.
Perfect victory.
Steve wrote:
Larisa won’t make it another 20 years. 🙁
1. Hit phone with carbon rod causing it catch fire and soon explode
2. Throw phone at Boy Scouts, the relatively harmless explosion will scare them into running away
3. Shoot digger with rpg saving Sandra
First, tell the boy scouts she will give them pizza if they can reach the wall behind them. They will rush to the stable back of the basement.
Second, hit the Target sign repeatedly on the word “Target”. One or two hits should force it to rotate 90 degrees and come towards her. Once it hits the gap, it will fall in and become lodged.
Third, she can now cross the gap, using the neck of the loader.
Fourth, she can ise the rod as a lever and free Sandra.
Finally, she can use her cell phone to call and order more pizza, and to report the rogue loader to the police. She can use the Gorbachov head for face time, so they wont recognize her.
Use one of THE rockets to break the third wall.
Use THE pizza to bribe Novil into writing a more favorable situation.
@ Novil: rockwt wall jump to the other side and jam the carbon rod into the machine somewhere. Then, eat pizza. Also,cwhy would she have a samsung phone? Where did the Iphone go?
I have the best solution ever. Play Justin Beiber music at full volume.@ novil:
Angels have a bit of a vanity complex. What if Larisa threw the carbon rod/shot one of the various suggestions for a non-lethal missile through the window of the digger, NOT blowing it up, and then said something along the lines of “HEY! (Insert insult here)! I’VE BEEN A PAIN IN YOUR BUTT THIS ENTIRE TIME! SANDRA’S NOT GOING ANYWHERE, WHY NOT GET SOME REVENGE?!” The angels, in all their pride, exit the digger to chase after Larisa, she runs away from the scene of the crime, the boy scouts, in their ingenuity, get themselves out of the pit, and would proceed to save Sandra. Meanwhile, Larisa goes on her own escapade of buying them time and maybe killing angels? No matter what is eventually chosen, if the boy scouts live, she does go and burn down their meeting house after this ordeal is over; she can’t just let those goody-two-shoes off scott-free.
SIMPLE… Shoot the diggers bucket witch will destroy it and save Sandra and then use the carbon rod to rescue the boy scouts.
Shoot the boy scouts first and then shoot the digger. Thus there is no trolley problem when it comes to saving Sandra.
I have written the whole sequence. Since I do no longer need any suggestions I have decided to close the comment section for this strip.